The Son

Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: November 25, 2022

5.1	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Ratings

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bertobellamyMay 24, 2023

Monumental misfire. Can't believe this was made by the same guy as 'The Father.' Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, and Laura Dern do their best, but the screenplay is terrible. And Zen McgGrath's character probably it's the worst written ever.Monumental misfire. Can't believe this was made by the same guy as 'The Father.' Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, and Laura Dern do their best, but the screenplay is terrible. And Zen McgGrath's character probably it's the worst written ever. And, honestly, the guy can't act.… Expand

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alejandro970Jun 2, 2023

One of the strengths of this drama is that it handles sensitive issues correctly, realistically; The Achilles heel is that the thread that connects with the viewer and makes them empathize with the characters fails, and that is why the climaxOne of the strengths of this drama is that it handles sensitive issues correctly, realistically; The Achilles heel is that the thread that connects with the viewer and makes them empathize with the characters fails, and that is why the climax lacked impact. Better luck next time?… Expand

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JLuis_001Feb 11, 2023

With The Son Florian Zeller tries again to build a sober work like he did with The Father, but unfortunately, despite the solid performances of his cast, especially Hugh Jackman, what he ends up with is an impressively ineffective movie.With The Son Florian Zeller tries again to build a sober work like he did with The Father, but unfortunately, despite the solid performances of his cast, especially Hugh Jackman, what he ends up with is an impressively ineffective movie.

It's not a sloppily crafted movie, except that it's very poorly structured and hardly realistic. The treatment of depression is flawed and, above all, superfluous.

Regardless of the work of its actors. Mostly Jackman, I think The Son will resonate more with viewers who will identify with the issues than what the movie does about them, and when I as a viewer feel like I'm not even getting a good examination of the issue, let alone something that makes me respond emotionally, what's left about it doesn't resolve or save absolutely nothing.

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Mauro_LanariMay 24, 2023

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Conclusive act of a theatrical trilogy of which the film adaptation of "La Mère" is still missing, it has a score of 4.8/10 on Rotten and of 4.5/10 on Metacritic. The mistakes made by Zeller to get such an amount of harsh(Mauro Lanari)
Conclusive act of a theatrical trilogy of which the film adaptation of "La Mère" is still missing, it has a score of 4.8/10 on Rotten and of 4.5/10 on Metacritic. The mistakes made by Zeller to get such an amount of harsh criticism to his second direction of a feature length are not few.
1) He does not distinguish "attempted suicide" from "failed suicide": it is only the 1st to be a request for help and attention, while 17-year-old Nicholas performs the 2nd gesture. The psychiatrists who take care of him should know the difference and explain it to the parents to justify the high risk of recurrence, but they do not.
2) He does not distinguish between adolescent discomfort, trauma from parental divorce and existential crisis [in the scene set in Nicholas' room the portrait of Rimbaud is prominently displayed]. The so-called "homo pulsionalis" is not superimposable to the "homo existentialis", the 3 different diagnoses require equally specific therapies and antidepressants could even be harmful.
3) In 2000 the Nolan brothers adopted with "Memento" the subjective perspective of a neuropsychiatric case by inventing the trick of a new chronological line to screen-write a noir work. I find the idea more fascinating when it is not limited to the renewal of a film genre but allows me to experience reality from points of view directly inaccessible to me. With "The Father" (2020) Zeller behaved like the Nolans, but what would be the peculiar POV of an aspiring suicidal? The ordinariness of the script of "The Son" makes it an ambiguous and in any case too schematic melodrama of a dysfunctional family.
4) This type of dramas continues to be sweetened by setting them, from "Amour" (Haneke 2012) onwards, in exaggeratedly high-ranking contexts among wealthy successful and prestigious characters: the nursing home where Hopkins was hosted in the previous film, in Italy it would cost around 3,000 euros a month, not to mention the United States. Furthermore, you never see adult diapers, walkers, bedpans, bed rails for the disabled, faecal and urinary incontinences: at movie festivals do they have a different organism from that of ordinary mortals?
5) Thanks, but the slow motion... not.… Expand

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